Welcome to the Jungle!

Well more of a copse, or a clump..... I've painted some of the old 40K plastic jungle trees anyway!

These have come out really well considering they are just bare plastic which has been hit by a green and brown Army Painter wash, and I'm very pleased with them.

Not sure what I'll do with these yet, they will either end up in the Necromunda collection or act as palm trees in the desert scenary.

Hurricanes! With the champion spirit that's here to...DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!

So I've also finished another Hurricane (a Mk IID with 40mm cannon) this month and tarted up my Mk IIB to the same standard. This gives me a pair of Hurricanes for use in Flames of War under the new rules.

You can see them below.

Be my Valentine

I've completed a late Valentine's day present for my Soviets, in this case 10 Valentine tanks. These tanks were supplied lend lease to the Soviet Union, and often not repainted (hence remaining in British brown).

These have been completed with the MkII (2 pdr) and MkIX (6pdr) turrets, so I have both options available.

MkII

MkIX

My scumshake brings all the girls to the hive....

...and they're like " you finally painted something again"?

Well I've actually nearly finished a few things, but thanks to poor varnishing weather, I've not quite finished them.
What I have managed to finish is an Escher ganger, an escher juve and 'Mad' Donna Ulanti, as well as some plastic ruins.

'Mad' Donna

Ganger and Juve

Christmas Grind

So the Christmas holidays have been and gone, but I did manage to get some stuff painted.

Firstly, was an experiment with the new GW contrast paints. I've been sat looking at the Zombicide zombies for a while. With the help of my friend Chris we managed to get these 64 models basecoated in about 5 hours. It probably took me 3-4 hours of basing and adding detail the next day to finish them but that's a pretty good output. They look pretty good as can be seen below.

So what do I think of the new contrast paints? All in all pretty good, they help with the speed of production. However, I've found some colours have great coverage (like the reds) while others require additional costs, and aren't as good. They are useful for basecoating and i'm considering picking up a few, however they are not a magic 'one coat solves all problems' that I have heard from elsewhere.

Next up, I got the dork tower survivor expansion from Zombicide for Christmas. I was able to finish them off as well in a cartoon style, which fits the sculpts. You'll notice that I didn't use any metallics on these, to fit this style.

Finally is an interesting side project. I was able to find my old train set in the loft. In there was a Lima wagon with bare blue plastic which stood out from the other Hornby rolling stock. To blend this in I masked this off and sprayed the interior. I then weathered the wagon, and it now looks much better.

Bulking Up

So I've been looking at my old necromunda bulkheads for a while, and thinking, "They would look better with some paint". Simple job I thought, though it took a lot longer than planned, even with a big brush.

Nevertheless they are finally done and looking a lot better, together with a repaint of an old 40k obstacle I acquire from a friend.

Preparing for the Apocolypse

Wow, it's been a month since the last update! Thought it had been busy in work....

More seriously, while I'm not achieving my friend Chris's productivity (about a mini a day at the moment), I've still got a bit done.

First up are my 15mm scale phone boxes and mailbox from Iron Gate Scenery. These have been painted up for 1980 West Germany (IE Yellow) for Team Yankee.

Next we have the 6 survivors from the Zombicide core game.

I've varied a bit from the standard scheme, Doug has become a bit blue/grey to match his player colour, while Josh's hoodie is orange, rather than grey for the same reasons. I'm quite pleased with these, they have come out well.

Next up is either some Necromunda figures, Necromunda scenary (Bulkheads) or Zombies.